Shostakovich Festival Overture
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by MORTON GOULD Phillips The Fishermen of England: Stanford The Little Admiral; Drake's Drum
FREDERICK HARVEY (bar)
BAND OF THE ROYAL MARINES SCHOOL OF music, conducted by SIR VIVIAN DUNN
Franc.aix L'horloge de flore JOHN DE LANCIE (oboe)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDRE PREVIN Beethoven Andante and Variations in D: MARIA SCIVITTARO (mandolin) ROBERT VEYRON-LACROIX (harpsichord)
Weinberger Polka and Fugue (Schwanda the Bag-piper): LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by MORTON GOULD : records
Edited and introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: Handel's oratorio Israel in Egypt, by TREVOR HARVEY. New records of instrumental music and song, reviewed by RICHARD OSBORNE.
Giuliani Gran Sonata Eroica: PEPE ROMERO (guitar) Liszt Transcendental Studies Nos 9-12, with the corresponding studies, Op 1, on which they are based THOMAS RAJNA (piano) gramophone records
AGNES STREET BAND conductor ERNEST RUDDOCK Percy Fletcher An Epic Symphony
Eric Ball Call of the Sea Gordon Jacob March (Suite in b flat)
BBC Northern Ireland
Popular song is the theme that runs through today's selection of records by Jeremy Siepmann. There are pieces written under its influence. such as the Goldberg Variations, The Beggar's Opera, and Brahms's Academic Festival Overture. And conversely, there are pieces which more or less passed into popular ownership - likeSchubert'sDerLindenbaum. Plus a complete performance of Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet: records
Presented by Nicholas Anderson
Byrd Praeludium and Fantasia: Munday Robin ; Farnaby Mal Sims : Inglot The leaves bee greene; Byrd Fortune: Farnaby Giles Farnaby 's Dreame: His Rest; Farnabye's Conceit: His Humour: A Maske: A Toye; Loth to Depart; Byrd The Bells JOHN BECKETT (virginals)
Bach Cantata No 199: Mein Herze schwimmt in Blut
IRENE SANDFORD (Soprano) NEW IRISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, JOHN O'SULLIVAN (chamber organ) conductor JOHN BECKETT
Chris de Souza
with Peter Claytom
John Higgins (in the Chair), talks with Chris Dunkley , Clancy Sigal and Hilary Spurling.
This week's subjects: Nicolas Roeg 's film Bad Timing; the RSC production of Three Sisters at the Warehouse: the Marcel Broodthaers retrospective at the Tate Gallery; The Apathetic Bookie Joint and other stories by Daniel Fuchs ; and Harold Pinter 's BBC1 production of The Rear Column by SIMON GRAY. Producer PHILIP FRENCH
played by Peter Hurford. who also introduces the series
Organ of New College Chapel,Oxford
Prelude and Fugue in A minor (Bwv 543)
Toccata and Fugue in E major (bwv 566)
The title-piece of NEIL JORDAN 'S collection of short stories which won this year's Guardian Writers' Award.
Read by Bosco Hogan
' He heard people talking about her even on her first day there. He learnt that underneath her frayed blouse her wrists were marked. She was a girl about whom they wculd talk anyway ..." Producer ROBERT COOPER BBC Northern Ireland
Concerto in E minor, Op 2 No 3: BOURNEMOUTH SINFON-1ETTA, directed by RONALD THOMAS (violin) gramophone record
A simultaneous broadcast with BBC2 For details and cast see page 27
Acts1and2 9.20* Interval
9.35* Manon Lescaut Acts 3 and 4 Preview: page 23
First of two programmes played by Osian Ellis
Elizabeth Maconchy: Morning, Noon and Night
Malcolm Arnold: Fantasy
A short story by JOHN CHEEVER
Read by David Buck
' They are Americans. Nothing they can do will quite conceal the touching ridiculousness, the clumsiness of the traveller. The father is a tall, young man. a little stooped, with curly hair and fine white teeth. His wife is pretty, and they have two sons. Both boys are armed with plastic machine-guns which were recently mailed to them by their grandparents.' Producer MAURICE LEITCH
by Mozart AMADEI 'S QUARTET with GERD SEIFERT and MANFRED KLIER (horns) gramophone record
